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I believe Widdowson and Lewis have vastly differing opinions on this point.
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Widdowson, I think, was arguing that as there are now a far greater number of speakers of English as a second or additional language, they have ‘appropriated’ a system of communication that is fairly far removed from that used by Native speakers.
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The fiercest criticisms of an over-reliance on corpus data (e.g. by Widdowson or Guy Cook) make more or less the same point – in the absence of both co-text and context, any claims, apart from the purely quantitative, about usage have to be heavily qualifed.
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The dreadful Frances Widdowson thinks along similar lines today:
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The ‘artificiality’ of the classroom (hughes 1981: 7) and the suspension of reality in the pedagogical situation (Widdowson 1984) reveal learners as willing collaborators in the learning game.
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Its principal, John Widdowson, said: The ability to offer additional places is really welcome.
What students think of universities competing for their admissions 2011
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Its principal, John Widdowson, said: The ability to offer additional places is really welcome.
What students think of universities competing for their admissions 2011
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When talking about standard/non-standard and language varieties Widdowson recently threw some more terminology into the mix.
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Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose edited by Peter Widdowson on the shelf and determined to pick it up when I got home.
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Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose edited by Peter Widdowson on the shelf and determined to pick it up when I got home.
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